Becoming A Woman And Accepting It Essay

Becoming A Woman 1 At first reading, Elizabeth Bishops In The Waiting Room is a world full of tremendous imagery. I did non care what it meant, I just enjoyed the way she described what she saw in the home(a) Geographic while waiting in a dentists room. I can abruptly see in my mind when she wrote about the inside of a volcano, black, and full of ashes then it was spilling over in rivulets of fire Babies with pointed heads wound round and round with string (Bishop, 1977).The second reading, I began to wonder what she meant with But I felt you are an I, you are an Elizabeth, you are one of them Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? I thought maybe she has an identity crisis or something like that so I reread it again. This time, the idiom I said to myself three days and youll be seven years old stuck on my mind. And thats when everything clicked. I felt that with her seventh birthday coming on (for me, this is an idiom for a cleaning womans rite of passage like her eight eenth birthday or another significant event), Elizabeth feels shes eventually becoming a woman.When I say becoming a woman, its the transition from being a carefree girl to an adult female with responsibilities. Shes rather agitated by it, not quite sure if she could be like her aunt and the rest of the adults. Elizabeth is anxious and is not ready to become a woman, but whether she likes it or not, shes a woman already. Thus, she said, I knew that nobody stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen. After questioning how she became a woman, Elizabeth finally accepted that she is one.In the end of the meter she said, The War was on. If you were a kid, a teenager, or someone who doesnt care for responsibilities, a war is not something youd think about. But Elizabeth now does think about it. She has finally accepted she is a woman with responsibilities, still scared about it but willing to face whatever that might come her way. Well, at least, thats how I see it ? Becoming A Woman 3 Reference Bishop, Elizabeth. (1977). Geography III. raw York Farrar Straus & Giroux.